Education
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‘How outrageous and impossible is that?’: factoring in how year 12 students coped in lockdown is a grading nightmare for teachers
Victoria provided students with similar special consideration in 2020 to avoid adverse impacts of COVID reflecting in ATAR rankings as…
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Students who are more adaptable do best in remote learning – and it’s a skill we can teach
The important thing about these findings is that adaptability is a teachable skill. Later in this article we discuss how…
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5 ways to teach the link between grammar and imagination for better creative writing
If we inspire students to write creatively at length but don’t teach them how to use the necessary grammatical structures,…
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Gamers know the power of ‘flow’ — what if learners could harness it too?
COVID-19 lockdowns only increased the opportunity for those distractions to interfere with learning...
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Choosing your senior school subjects doesn’t have to be scary. Here are 6 things to keep in mind
From about August each year, young people in year 10 go through a round of interviews to close in on…
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Regional coal mining school combines music with STEM
The tune of a coal mining region of NSW country has changed as a regional primary school starts its day…
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Choosing your senior school subjects doesn’t have to be scary. Here are 6 things to keep in mind
This is the first article in a series providing school students with evidence-based advice for choosing subjects in their senior…
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Indigenous experts point to mistruths in curriculum
First Nations education experts respond to mistruths in relation to the Australian Curriculum Review.
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Aussie kids’ financial knowledge is on the decline. The proposed national curriculum has downgraded it even further
There is no independent financial literacy strand in the Australian Curriculum, but a sub-strand exists within maths. This is clearly…
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Setting goals to beat previous efforts improves educational outcomes. And the gains are bigger for disadvantaged students
We found students who set goals like these were much more engaged in school than those who didn’t. And the…
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